ArticleJournal of affective disorders2016
High frequency heart-rate variability predicts adolescent depressive symptoms, particularly anhedonia, across one year.
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- Getting to the heart of food craving with resting heart rate variability in adolescents.Appetite · 2020Article
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- Cardiac Vagal Control, Regulatory Processes and Depressive Symptoms: Re-Investigating the Moderating Role of Sleep Quality.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Fine Particle Air Pollution and Physiological Reactivity to Social Stress in Adolescence: The Moderating Role of Anxiety and Depression.Psychosomatic medicine · 2019Article
- Treating Depression With Tai Chi: State of the Art and Future Perspectives.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Article
- Resting Heart Rate Variability (HRV) in Adolescents and Young Adults from a Genetically-Informed Perspective.Behavior genetics · 2018Article
- Prefrontal cortex modulates the correlations between brain-derived neurotrophic factor level, serotonin, and the autonomic nervous system.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- An assessment of health status and health behaviours in adolescents: main points and methods of the SOPKARD-Junior programme.Archives of medical science : AMS · 2018Article
- Inflexibility as a Vulnerability to Depression: A Systematic Qualitative Review.Clinical psychology : a publication of the Division of Clinical Psychology of the American Psychological Association · 2017Article
- The moderating influence of heart rate variability on stressor-elicited change in pupillary and attentional indices of emotional processing: An eye-Tracking study.Biological psychology · 2017Article
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backgroundFew prospective studies examine the link between lower heart rate variability (HRV) and depression symptoms in adolescents. A recent animal model specifically links HRV to anhedonia, suggesting a potential translational model for human research.
methodWe investigated the association between spectral measures of resting HRV and depressive symptoms measured one year later, among 73 adolescents, aged 11-18 years. We evaluated (1) the predictive power of relative high frequency (HF) HRV, relative low frequency (LF) and relative very low frequency (VLF) HRV for depressive symptoms; and (2) the relative strength of association between HF HRV and depressive symptomatology (anhedonia, negative mood, interpersonal problems, ineffectiveness, negative self-esteem).
resultsHF HRV significantly predicted self-reported depressive symptoms across one year, controlling for age, puberty and sex. HF HRV was most strongly associated with anhedonia one year later, after considering other facets of depressive symptomatology.
conclusionsResults provide support for the prospective relationship between relative HF HRV and depressive symptoms among adolescents across one year. Findings concur with rodent models that suggest a specific link between HF HRV and anhedonia. LIMITATIONS: We investigated relative spectral power HF HRV and depressive symptom dimensions. We cannot make strong claims about these associations in clinical depression. Physical activity levels could be controlled in future work.
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